Ethics or Moral Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Guttorm Fløistad (auth.), Guttorm Fløistad (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey 11
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume examines a variety of philosophical approaches that seek to formulate practical guidelines or norms for human actions and behavior in different areas of society, including politics, cultural traditions, the environment, business management, architecture, and medicine.

Written by a team of international authors, this volume features thirteen surveys. It begins with an exploration of ethics in politics and cultural traditions. From genocide to the unequal distribution of wealth, it examines many of the harms that currently affect societies throughout the world and considers a way that those in politics can follow to provide better care for all their populations. Next, the book looks at the relation between ethics and cultural traditions. It features a paper that examines the tension that often exists between the past and the present, with a special focus on the history of India. This volume also considers the idea of a universal system of ethics, presents a practical approach to value-based management in private and public organizations, and examines ethics in medicine.

In addition, this volume includes coverage of a new type of ethics called Eco-ethica, proposed by the Japanese philosopher Tomonobu Imamichi, which seeks to answer the question of how men and women can “live better” or “live together with each other” in a systematized, technological age. ​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Éthique et mutualité: Le Care , l’indifférence et la relation fiduciaire....Pages 17-33
The Immanent and the Transcendent in Indian Ethics....Pages 35-46
Naturalism Naturalism in Indian Ethics: Sāmkhya , Jainism and Buddhism Buddhism ....Pages 47-57
Traditional Values in the Time of Globalization Globalization ....Pages 59-71
What Ought I Not to Do?....Pages 73-86
Communicative Source of Moral Imperativity....Pages 87-98
Approaches to Ethics, Approaches in Ethics and the Idea of a “Universal Ethics”....Pages 99-108
Learning to Listen or Why Morality Calls for Liberal Politics....Pages 109-130
The Human Sciences and Moral Judgment....Pages 131-143
Eco-Ethica After Fukushima in Japan....Pages 145-154
Values That Work: A Practical Approach to Value-Based Management in Private and Public Organizations....Pages 155-175
Architectural Ethics: A Phenomenological Perspective....Pages 177-194
Médecine et philosophie morale (1990–2010)....Pages 195-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-221

✦ Subjects

Ethics; Political Theory